UN’s top court will not address aspects of case accusing Russia of violating Genocide Convention by falsely alleging genocide. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has ruled that parts of Ukraine’s case against Russia arguing that Moscow baselessly accused Kyiv of genocide to justify the 2022 invasion can move forward….
At the end of the year, we hear predictions about the future, many of which have been proven wrong — from the end of the world due to climate change, to the telephone is just a toy. (There is a story, probably apocryphal, that in 1876, the president of Western…
Since the invasion of Ukraine, nearly all of the Kremlin’s critics have been jailed or gone into exile. A Russian court has handed a nine-and-a-half-year prison sentence to an ally of Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny. Ksenia Fadeyeva, a lawyer and lawmaker in the Siberian city of Tomsk, was sent to…
Russian opposition leader says he has seen his lawyer after 20 days travelling to penal colony above the Arctic Circle. Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny has confirmed he is being held in a remote Arctic prison and has seen his lawyer after his spokespeople said they had lost touch…
Russian opposition figure has been moved from penal colony and lawyers say they haven’t seen him since last week. The Kremlin has said it has “no information” about jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny, whose lawyers have not seen him since December 6. Prison authorities moved him from the penal…
Putin remains tight-lipped on Russian athletes’ participation in the 2024 Olympics under the conditions imposed by the IOC. Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused the International Olympic Committee (IOC) of trying to bury the Olympic movement by imposing rules on Russian athletes for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris. Last…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to strengthen Russia’s naval prowess after the country inaugurated two new nuclear submarines. Putin travelled to the northern city of Severodvinsk to view the vessels, the Emperor Alexander III and Krasnoyarsk, at the Sevmash shipbuilding yard where they were built over the past six…
Ukrainian leader appeals for continued help for the fight to expel Russian forces as he visits Washington, DC. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that failing to maintain support for Ukraine would play into the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin as questions loom over the future of assistance from the…
A spokesperson for the Russian opposition figure says that prison officials have refused to say where he was transferred. A spokesperson for Alexey Navalny has said that the Russian opposition leader has been removed from the prison where he was being held and that his whereabouts are unknown. In a…
Vladimir Putin is widely expected to run again after constitutional reforms he orchestrated in 2020 to help extend his term. Russia’s upper house of parliament has voted to set the date for the country’s next presidential election for March 17, 2024, potentially moving President Vladimir Putin closer to a fifth…
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